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on the body. It feeds on various plants, as the dock, plantain, teazle, scabious, &. It appears from June to 
August, and is a rare but widely-dispersed species, chiefly occurring in the south of England, but also taken in 
Norfolk and Suffolk. 
SPECIES 4.—HELIOTHIS SCUTOSA. Puare LITI., Fie. 5, 6. 
Synonymes.— Noctua scutosa, Hiibner; Fabricius; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pl. 595 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. fig. 1672. 
This species has the fore wings dark brown, with the veins and a subapical striga ochreous-white ; the disk 
of the wing with three large brown spots edged with black, representing the three stigmata, the anterior one 
preceded and followed by ochre-white spots; the apical margin with a row of black dots. The hind wings 
whitish ochre, with dark veins, and a blackish central spot and marginal border, in which are two round ochreous 
spots on the outside towards the middle. The caterpillar is green, with black setigerous tubercles and black lines 
on the back and sides; it feeds on Artemisia campestris, and the moth has occurred “ on the banks of the river 
Caldew, a little below the village of Dalston, in July last ;” also, on the coast not far from Skinburness, in 
Cumberland. 

ANARTA, OcusenuHeEIMer. 
This genus has the terminal joint of the palpi so short as to be invisible except by denuding them ; the 
antennz are alike in both sexes, and filiform ; the eyes pubescent, the thorax not crested, the fore wings lanceolate, 
the hind ones pale with a dark border. The caterpillars have sixteen feet ; they are smooth and naked, with a 
small head; they feed on low plants. The chrysalides are enclosed in cocoons of silk mixed with grains of earth. 
The perfect insects are of small size ; they fly by day in the sunshine. 
SPECIES 1.—ANARTA MYRTILLI. Puare LIII., Fie. 7. 
Synonymes.—Phalena Noctua Myrtilli, Linneus; Fabricius; , Brit. Ent. pl. 145 ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 16, fig. 411. 
Haworth ; Donovan, 7, pl. 231 ; Harris, Expos. pl. 4, fig. e ; Curtis, Noctua albirena, Haworth (variety). 
This species measures rather less than an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a red-brown 
colour, with fulyous and grayish-white slender undulating strigee, and with an irregular-shaped white spot in the 
middle, and an obscure kidney-shaped posterior stigma ; the cilia alternately spotted with white and brown; 
hind wings pale fulvous, with a broad black margin extending all round the wing ; the cilia luteous. It varies 
considerably in the clearness of the pale markings and in the brilliancy of the ground colour of the wings, which 
are sometimes brown, with pale markings (N. albirena, Haw.). The caterpillar is green and naked, with a 
grayish coloured head, and with numerous minute white and yellow spots, with a dusky dorsal line, and a white 
line on each side above the feet. It feeds on heath and whortleberry, and the moth appears in June and July ; 
it is a very lively insect, flying over heathy places in the sunshine. It is far from uncommon, and is a widely- 
dispersed species. > 

SPECIES 2.—ANARTA CORDIGERA. Puate LIIL., Fre. 8. 
Syvnonymes.—JVoctua cordigera, Thunberg; Esper; Ochsenheimer ; Duponchel ; Stephens ; Curtis; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 52, fig. 1670. 
Noctua albirena, Hubner. 
This species has the fore wings blackish-brown, with a large kidney-shaped whitish patch in the middle, 
having a dark dash in front of it extending towards the base of the wing; the ordinary strige are indistinct and 
dark, the subapical one being most discernible ; the hind wings are luteous, with a blackish border narrower 
than in the preceding species. A specimen from Scotland is in Mr. Curtis's collection. 


